inflicted
Example Sentences
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But this is how discovery works: If you claim a broadcast inflicted extraordinary economic harm, the defendant gets to test that claim.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Aides have helped sell him on the strategy by showing him data on the damage that sanctions have already inflicted on the regime, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Near the base of a column atop which Saint Simeon Stylites once perched, scattered stones lay bare the damage inflicted on the surrounding Byzantine monastery in northern Syria by war, looting and rampant illegal excavations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
The measure of his serious intent to change will be measured in how he spends it—in seeking a return to public power, or in reckoning with the harm he inflicted.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
It might matter some to the wretched ruin of a husband that Euron had inflicted upon her, but Eric Ironmaker did not have coin enough to ransom her.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
